Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

[Boon Mee]

Everywind, photo Roland W. Reed, 1907

[Latindancer]

Thanks for that, BM...I'd never heard of her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitkala-Sa

[Boon Mee]

Thanks for that, BM...I'd never heard of her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitkala-Sa

She is rather comeley IMO

[Sumbitch]

She is rather comeley IMO

I'm more and more surprised at how many women are so comely these days, it's not a surprise at all to find out they always have been. As Morgan Freeman suggests in an ad for his Through the Wormhole series on Discovery, think: "What is the most important question you have?".

Why do these women exist, in all their perfection?

[Boon Mee]

Charles A. “Charlie” Siringo 1855-1928



Matagorda County, Texas
Photographed in front of the Hotel Palacios 1913

Horses Rowdy & Pat and Irish Wolfhound Eat ‘Em up Jake

[Boon Mee]

Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina in 1957.

[rebbu]

1799
Rosetta Stone found
On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.

When Napoleon, an emperor known for his enlightened view of education, art and culture, invaded Egypt in 1798, he took along a group of scholars and told them to seize all important cultural artifacts for France. Pierre Bouchard, one of Napoleon’s soldiers, was aware of this order when he found the basalt stone, which was almost four feet long and two-and-a-half feet wide, at a fort near Rosetta. When the British defeated Napoleon in 1801, they took possession of the Rosetta Stone.

Several scholars, including Englishman Thomas Young made progress with the initial hieroglyphics analysis of the Rosetta Stone. French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832), who had taught himself ancient languages, ultimately cracked the code and deciphered the hieroglyphics using his knowledge of Greek as a guide. Hieroglyphics used pictures to represent objects, sounds and groups of sounds. Once the Rosetta Stone inscriptions were translated, the language and culture of ancient Egypt was suddenly open to scientists as never before.

The Rosetta Stone has been housed at the British Museum in London since 1802, except for a brief period during World War I. At that time, museum officials moved it to a separate underground location, along with other irreplaceable items from the museum’s collection, to protect it from the threat of bombs.


Rosetta Stone found - Jul 19, 1799 - HISTORY.com

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Ellis Island, 1910....

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The Second Anglo - Boer War, South Africa 1899

[stroller]

The first concentration camp:

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[rebbu]

In 1953 Oyama opened his own karate dojo, named Oyama Dojo, in Tokyo but continued to travel around Japan and the world giving martial arts demonstrations, including the fighting and killing of live bulls with his bare hands (sometimes grabbing them by the horn, and snapping the horn off)

Masutatsu Oyama (大山 倍達 Ōyama Masutatsu?, born Choi Yeong-eui (Hangul: 최영의 Hanja: 崔永宜); July 27th, 1923 – April 26, 1994), more commonly known as Mas Oyama, was a karate master who founded Kyokushin Karate, considered the first and most influential style of full contact karate.[2][3] A Zainichi Korean, he spent most of his life living in Japan and acquired Japanese citizenship in 1964. He was an alumnus of Waseda University.[4]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas_Oyama

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Bert Mann with a load of rabbit skins, Walcha, NSW 1905

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Australian soldiers in Egypt with a kangaroo as regimental mascot, 1914.

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Rabbits around a waterhole at the myxomatosis trial enclosure on Wardang Island in 1938

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Prohibition

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Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's Fokker F7B-3M “Southern Cross”

[steve down under]

Looks like he sunk a few in his time !

[rebbu]

Charles Earl Bowles (b. 1829; d.after 1888), also known as Black Bart, was an English-born outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after two of his robberies. Often called Charley by his friends, he was also known as Charles Bolton, C.E. Bolton and Black Bart the Poet.[1] Considered a gentleman bandit with a reputation for style and sophistication,[1] he was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to operate in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s.

First robbery[edit]
On July 26, 1875, Bowles robbed his first stagecoach in Calaveras County, on the road between Copperopolis and Milton. What was unusual were the outlaw's politeness and good manners. He spoke with a deep and resonant tone as he ordered stage driver John Shine, "Please throw down the box." As Shine handed over the strongbox, Bowles shouted, "If he dares to shoot, give him a solid volley, boys". Seeing rifle barrels pointed at him from the nearby bushes, Shine quickly handed over the strongbox. Shine waited until Bowles vanished and then went to recover the empty strongbox. When he examined the area, he discovered that the "men with rifles" were actually carefully rigged sticks.

Bowles first robbery netted him $160.[3]

Last stagecoach robbery[edit]
His last holdup took place on November 3, 1883 at the site as his first robbery on Funk Hill, southeast of the present town of Copperopolis. Driven by Reason McConnell, the stage had crossed the Reynolds Ferry on the old road from Sonora to Milton. The driver stopped at the ferry to pick up Jimmy Rolleri, the 19-year-old son of the ferry owner. Rolleri had his rifle with him and got off at the bottom of the hill to hunt along the creek and meet the stage on the other side. When he arrived at the western end, he found that the stage was not there and began walking up the stage road. Near the summit, he saw the stage driver and his team of horses.

McConnell told him that as the stage had approached the summit, Bowles had stepped out from behind a rock with a shotgun in his hands. He forced McConnell to unhitch the team and take them over the crest of the hill. Bowles then tried to remove the strongbox from the stage, but it had been bolted to the floor and took Bowles some time to remove.

Rolleri and McConnell went over the crest and saw Bowles backing out of the stage with the strong box. McConnell grabbed Rolleri's rifle and fired at twice Bowles twice but missed. Rolleri took the rifle and fired as Bowles entered a thicket. He stumbled as if he had been hit. Running to the thicket, they found a small bundle of mail he dropped. There were drops of blood on it.

Bowles had been wounded in the hand. After running a quarter of a mile, he stopped and he wrapped a handkerchief around his hand to stop the bleeding. He found a rotten log and stuffed the sack with the gold amalgam into it, keeping $500 in gold coins. He hid the shotgun in a hollow tree, threw everything else away, and fled.

In a manuscript written by stage driver McConnell about 20 years after the robbery, he claimed he fired all four shots at Bowles. The first missed, but he thought the second or third shot hit Bowles, and was sure the fourth did. Bowles only had the one wound to his hand.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bart_(outlaw)